Tomorrow, Thursday 10 March 2010 is No Smoking Day.

In its 27th year, No

Smoking Day is encouraging smokers to quit smoking, save thousands of pounds

and take the opportunity to find out about help and support available.

Have you given up?  Tried and failed?  Are you willing to give it another go?

Torridge Lead

Member for Health, Adam Symons, is supporting this year’s No Smoking Day

campaign and will be supporting events across Torridge. Thousands of No Smoking

Day events are taking place all over the UK. There will be customised

Double-Decker Buses, ashtray amnesties, interactive stalls, dance displays and

world record attempts. And many sports activities including local football

clubs are getting involved.  Stop smoking

services, fire and rescue services, local councils, supermarkets, and many more

are out and about to help and support smokers who are ready to break free!

 

Adam said:

“No Smoking Day

is a fantastic campaign to help and support smokers who want to stop smoking.  I’m encouraging smokers in Torridge to break

free on No Smoking Day and give up cigarettes for good!  In this current economic climate, hardworking

families are finding it particularly difficult. 

If you stop smoking today, within a month you are £180 better off.  

 

“Visit your local

stop smoking service for help and advice on how to stop smoking and increase

your chances of success by up to four times.”

 

Duncan Bannatyne, No Smoking Day President, entrepreneur

and Dragons’ Den star said:

“Quitting smoking isn’t always easy. Most

of the nine million UK

smokers say they’d like to quit, and many have tried to stop several times over

the last year.

 

“If you’ve tried and failed a few times,

it’s easy to give up hope. But you’ll find few ex-smokers that quit the habit

on their first attempt. So pick yourself up, dust yourself down and believe

that this time you really can do it!”

For more

information about stopping smoking go to www.nosmokingday.org.uk